Morning Briefing: Brady Romance & a Detroit Sunday
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Good morning, Toledo — it’s Sunday, and the overnight cycle gave us a little of everything: a new celebrity romance, a viral subway star, and a monster Sunday ahead up I-75. Here’s your Morning Briefing.
NEW: BRADY’S REPORTED NEW ROMANCE — Tom Brady is reportedly dating supermodel Candice Swanepoel, with a source telling Us Weekly the pair have been together “for a while.” Full story
NEW: CONAN’S SUBWAY CO-STAR — Brooklyn bar owner Debbie Shields turned a chance F-train encounter with Conan O’Brien into a viral “SubwayTakes” moment she says changed her life. Full story
OVERNIGHT: BREWERS UP 2-0 — Milwaukee rallied from 4-0 down to beat Tampa Bay 5-4 in World Series Game 2 on Saturday night. Game 3 is Monday night in St. Petersburg; Sunday is an off day. Full Game 2 recap
OVERNIGHT: UPSET SATURDAY — No. 19 Texas 34, No. 7 Ole Miss 27, plus UCF’s stunner over No. 2 BYU and four more ranked teams falling. Texas-Ole Miss recap · Midnight Briefing
TOLEDO WON SATURDAY — Rockets 45, Western Michigan 38 at the Glass Bowl; Walleye 5, Wheeling 2.
LEAK WATCH: CLOSED — The north Toledo chemical leak is over: evacuation orders lifted Oct. 23, the tank empty, the site turned over to its owners under U.S. EPA oversight, with the EPA’s mobile air lab finding no detections in the community. The final update
TODAY’S WATCH LIST (Sunday, Oct. 25)
- NFL Sunday: Browns at Titans, 1:00 PM; Bengals at Ravens, 1:00 PM; Packers at Lions, 4:25 PM at Ford Field (Josh Jacobs expected to make his season debut); Chiefs at Seahawks, 8:20 PM.
- Detroit tonight: Jonas Brothers at Little Caesars Arena, 7:30 PM.
- Monday: World Series Game 3, Brewers at Rays, 8:00 PM ET at Tropicana Field.
- Still watching: East Manhattan Boulevard reopening after the CSX derailment; EPA air-monitoring results from the north Toledo leak site.
That’s the morning. Lunchtime Briefing lands at noon — until then, stay with ToledoBuzz.